Stark v. Northwestern Nat. Life Ins.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Minnesota
At Law. This is an action instituted by L. J. Stark (as assignee of beneficiaries in a life insurance policy) against the defendant to recover on a policy of insurance issued in April, 1901, by the Northwestern National Life Insurance Company, of Madison, Wis. The Wisconsin company was then organized and existing under chapter 270, p. 460, Laws Wis. 1809, and the policy was issued expressly subject to the provisions of that law.
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At Law. This is an action instituted by L. J. Stark (as assignee of beneficiaries in a life insurance policy) against the defendant to recover on a policy of insurance issued in April, 1901, by the Northwestern National Life Insurance Company, of Madison, Wis. The Wisconsin company was then organized and existing under chapter 270, p. 460, Laws Wis. 1809, and the policy was issued expressly subject to the provisions of that law. In June. 1901, the defendant company was reincorporated under the provisions of chapter 178, It 233, of the Laws of Minnesota of 1901, to do business on the…
1Opinion of the CourtPurdy, District Judge
(charging the jury, the facts being as above stated). When you were chosen as jurors in this case you and each of you took an oath to try the case according to the evidence and the law as it should be given to you by the court. In the trial of jury *194cases it is the province of the jury to pass upon all questions of fact, while it is the duty of the court to pass upon all questions of law which may arise during the progress of the trial. Now it not infrequently happens that the evidence produced by the respective parties to an action at law presents no disputed question of fact for the jury to…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Northwestern Nat. Life Ins. Co. v. GrayCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1908
3Cited by1 opinion
- Frese v. Northwestern National Life InsuranceSouth Dakota Supreme Court · 1921